Has the Minister addressed the “artificial shortage” of drugs as he announced? It would be wiser to get the current health system working more efficiently but that requires a change in the entire leadership at the Ministry of Health. UTH is a prime example of failed leadership. The President must take action and fire these the Minister,PS and Directors at MoH.

Mr Minister, how can you start building a hospital of Levy Mwanawasa size ‘sometime this year’, and hope to complete it by the election time next year? Is it building a house that you complete in months? And the 650 posts you are talking about have several challenges, one of which is lack land. One was beeing built on my father-in-law’s farm through enchroanchment, and we have since put an injuction, and is the slab is abandoned for good, yet the Councillor was warned that it was private land – occupation of private property, the PF style!